Razonamiento animal: Negación y representaciones de ausencia

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Jorge Morales Ladrón de Guevara

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En este trabajo rechazo la posibilidad de que el razonamiento animal, en particular la negación, involucre necesariamente la representación de Ausencia, como sugiere José Luis Bermúdez, pues ésta operaría como una negación lógica (no disponible para criaturas no lingüísticas). Experimentos de creencias falsas, fingimiento y comunicación muestran que animales no humanos (al menos ciertos primates) tienen dificultades para representar entidades o propiedades ausentes. Ofrezco una explicación alternativa recurriendo a los juicios sub-simbólicos de semejanza propuestos por Vigo & Allen e introduzco la noción de expectativa: la negación se da a través de la incompatibilidad entre una representación esperada y la actual. Finalmente, sostengo que el paradigma de expectativas puede ser extrapolado a otros experimentos en psicología cognitiva (tanto con niños prelingüísticos como con animales) para diseñar experimentos "justos" que examinen otras mentes considerando sus habilidades reales.

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Morales Ladrón de Guevara, J. (2011). Razonamiento animal: Negación y representaciones de ausencia. Revista Argentina De Ciencias Del Comportamiento, 3(1), 20–33. https://doi.org/10.32348/1852.4206.v3.n1.5231
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